ing satisfied
that he kept not out so long with any design to evade the service of the
commonwealth; but, that being no sooner at his own disposal, it was no
sooner in his choice to come in. And if any youth or other person of
this nation have a desire to travel into foreign countries upon occasion
of business, delight, or further improvement of his education, the
same shall be lawful for him upon a pass obtained from the censors in
Parliament, putting a convenient limit to the time, and recommending him
to the ambassadors by whom he shall be assisted, and to whom he shall
yield honor and obedience in their respective residences. Every youth at
his return from his travel is to present the censors with a paper of his
own writing, containing the interest of state or form of government of
the countries, or some one of the countries, where he has been; and
if it be good, the censors shall cause it to be printed and published,
prefixing a line in commendation of the author.

"Every Wednesday next ensuing the last of December, the whole youth of
every parish, that is to say, every man (not excepted by the foregoing
part of the order), being from eighteen years of age to thirty, shall
repair at the sound of the bell to their respective church, and being
there assembled in presence of the overseers, who are to govern the
ballot, and the constable who is to officiate at the urn, shall, after
the manner of the elders, elect every fifth man of their whole number
(provided that they choose not above one of two brothers at one
election, nor above half if they be four or upward) to be a stratiot
or deputy of the youth; and the list of the stratiots so elected
being taken by the overseers, shall be entered in the parish book, and
diligently preserved as a record, called the first essay. They whose
estates by the law are able, or whose friends are willing, to mount
them, shall be of the horse, the rest are of the foot. And he who has
been one year of this list, is not capable of being re-elected till
after another year's interval.

"Every Wednesday next ensuing the last of January, the stratiots being
mustered at the rendezvous of their respective hundreds, shall, in the
presence of the jurymen, who are overseers of that ballot, and of the
high constable who is to officiate at the urn, elect out of the horse
of their troop or company one captain, and one ensign or cornet, to
the command of the same. And the jurymen having entered the